Welcome to Modcraft

[Steff]

Introducing

Hello and welcome to the Modcraft community.
I will give you a short overview over a part of available resources over the course of the thread.

Please read the entire post and have a look at the provided links. We are here to help, but it is really frustrating if questions about common problems are asked repetitively. So please help us to help you and read on <!-- s:) --><!-- s:) -->

If you have no idea about "WoW modding" at all, please look at this:
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The moderators

This people are here to manage that it works all well and help that everyone finds his way into our community.

Ascathos
MountainLion
Schlumpf
Steff

The Modcraft Tutorial

If you are interested to start with modding, we have a tutorial series to get started.
Previous experience will greatly help you here. If you have none, start with the tutorial, than work your way up based on here provided content.
It will prevent you from doing many mistakes and will make it much easier for us to give you support.
There are also several translations of the basic tutorial - some more completed while others are less. The translations were provided by members. A big thanks for this at this point.

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Noggit manual

There is a manual for noggit in our wiki. We added many functions and shortcuts to noggit over time, so take a look at it.
I think there will be some stuff you did not know and it might save you time in your work.

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If you find wrong information, feel free to fix them. It's a wiki and every modcraft user can edit it.

Board structure

The modding area of the board contains several sub-sections that are dedicated to different parts of WoW modding.
Read the description to find out where to post. All of them have the same sub- board structure.

Main Board
> Showoff - Show your work. What have you done yet ?
> Tutorials - Guide towards something. How is it done ?

The main board is always there to asking questions about the particular area.
Feel free to ask, but keep in mind that we cannot help you if you don´t provide enough information.

• What exactly do you want to do?
• What have you done yet to get things working?
• Do you have any error or log files you could provide?
• What tools, server and client version do you use?

A good title and tag is a great way to start.
And if your problem is fixed, please mark it as solved!

Resources

In the board resources you find many applications and stuff to download to mod WoW. The overview post gives a great list to start from, including a number of tools and names.

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Get in contact

Beside the board, we also have an IRC channel on quakenet.org where you can chat with us.
Would be nice to see you there. Just join the channel #Modcraft.

For questions on IRC / Quakenet, see their FAQ.


If you have questions to me you can also contact me in Skype.
Skype Name: project.modcraft

Ranking on Modcraft

We have no reputation system because it leads more often than not to no valuable result.
We have some ranks you can only get manual by a moderator, though.
These ranks are given depending on your posts and their quality.

Contributor: You help other users with useful hints. Posting "trash and useless comments" will not help here. Useful help and constructive critics will lead to this rank. You are becoming colored blue then.

Advanced artist: You posted several screens that show that you are able to create nice modding content like build or models. You will get orange.

Scripting master: You code some useful tool and release it here or show that you are a experienced wow related coder. Like C++ scripts or Lua/XML stuff. You will get purple.



And thus, you've reached the end! <!-- s:) --><!-- s:) -->
Thank you for reading all of this and have a good time here on Modcraft.

Steff

[pseudoman14]

Hey Steff,
I have been playing WoW for years and liked it well enough until I was having money issues one year and couldn't subscribe any longer.  It was then that I discovered the private servers and began playing around on some of them; you know the ones WoWHeroes and the like.  I cam across one called CausticWoW one day.  It was a bit different but horribly underpopulated, so much so that the owner made it a point of greeting new people personally.
The owner of Caustic and I got to chatting about what it was I wanted to see in a private server and I bent his ear for two hours while sitting AFK on his server.  He loved some of my ideas and proposed that I become one of his Devs so that I could aid in the implementation of some of those ideas.
I loved being a dev, and soon found that I hated playing the game but loved creating new things.  Eventually I grew weary of Dev'ing for him and wanted to try it on my own, so I learned what I could from tutorials and made my own server.
I write this to you because simply manipulating a server database is just not enough for me.  I want to go deeper into my world/character/serverside manipulation, but I run into the roadblock of absolute ignorance.  I want to learn everything there is to know about WoW Emus.  My question is, where do i go and what do I have to learn?  I am not talking about a tutorial that will half go over my head, but a place I can learn C++ and everything else I am going to need to make my server exactly what I want it to be.  Who knows, I may be able to come back here and teach others once I have put in the time learning everything.  Can you point me in the right direction?

[kojak488]

My question is, where do i go and what do I have to learn? I am not talking about a tutorial that will half go over my head, but a place I can learn C++ and everything else I am going to need to make my server exactly what I want it to be

So you're scared of a tutorial that's above your level and want to tackle C++ instead?  Am I high right now?

[Steff]

Start with the tutorial series.  Even if you dont want to use noggit.  Do parts till 2 to get client side environment setup.

First,  if you want do cpp you must learn it.  Then there are some helpfully tuts on the trinkty board.
Modcraft is more into client side modding.  But if you got questions you can always ask in the serverside board.

Also if you want to do x ask what it needs and spend time in this. Becaus wow modding is such a wide task.  You can not learn all the same time:)

[pseudoman14]

I am not in a rush to do everything at once.  I simply want to know what would be the most useful skills to go and learn so that I am prepared to do what needs to be done on my server.  If that means taking a year doing a c++ course, then I am all about doing that.  I am not looking for instantaneous methods of making my server do what I want it to do, I am interested in learning the mechanics of it all so that when I want to do something I have the tools to do so.

Its like I didn't make clear what I was asking, sorry.  I am able to detail and make my car pretty right now, what I am asking you for is advice on what I should learn to work on the engine.  If you understand my metaphor.  I can't just dig into it without understanding how it works.  I am asking what I should go and learn (outside of Modcraft) that will be helpful.

[Steff]

Than we need more Informationen what you want. To do.

[pseudoman14]

Okay lets try this again.  I have a server up and running.  I know how to manipulate the database, but what I want to be able to do is manipulate all of the other elements, such as talent trees, spells, character models, factions, etc.  I don't know what I need to learn to manipulate those elements.  From what I understand I am going to need to learn some c++ to manipulate the DBC elements, but I am not sure exactly what that means.  What I am asking from you is, what exactly should I go and learn so that I can understand all of that?    A list of things would be most helpful.  Keep in mind that I am in no rush and want to learn all of the things I need to in order to do this properly.  So, in your opinion, what should I go and learn?

[Steff]

Start wkth thentutorial. If offer you an environment tk start making custom patches and tell you how client side modding works. There is also a short part ober dbcs.  Basicly you edit in the moment ky a part of the full wow dataset.  The rest is in the dbcs.  Read tut till part 2.

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[dafengqixi]

I am a new model of the new, please exhibitions!